On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 01:09:41PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 06:57:47PM +0800, 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo) wrote: > > If the server restricted me to get the kind, what's the fastest way to fetch > > it in other way? > > No. The whole point of authorization is to prevent unauthorized > clients from getting this information. If you can work around it > you have found a security hole.
To put it another way: The fastest way of getting the node kind of an authz-restricted path is to ask the server administrator or some other user who has access to the path :)
